THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

TERTIARY LEVEL INSTITUTIONS UNIT

"NIPDEC House", 3^rd & 4^th Floors

Cor. Tragarete Road and Stanmore Avenue

Port-of-Spain, TRINIDAD

Telephone:( 868) 625-7147

Established on 5^th October 1978, Joint Services Staff College is a training and educational academy committed to forging professionalism and scholarship among security personnel. The College was initially mandated by government to upgrade the requisite job skills of administrative and technical personnel of the Protective Service and Defence Force of Trinidad and Tobago on a continuous basis so that their services to the national community would be discharged with efficiency and coordination.

The training programme offered at Joint Services Staff College have of necessity evolved to address the changing and expanded roles of the security community as a whole. Today, College programmes fall into 2 major categories:

• Full and part-time tertiary level educational programmes aimed at qualifying participants to function at managerial level, promote job specialisation and career path planning in their respective fields.

• Training Courses, Workshops and Retreats aimed at enhancing proficiency in single subject areas and the development of general life skills. These training programmes complement the in-service programmes offered to security personnel by their resident agencies.

The College is authorised to issue participation certificates, diplomas and degrees that satisfy national standards of accreditation determined by the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology(NIHERST). Employment opportunities for candidates who are fortunate to benefit from these programmes range from improving one’s promotional opportunities to job specialisation and job creation.

The Joint Services Staff College curriculum design establishes the vital link that should exist between training, attainment of professionalism and the promotion of scholarship among security staff. Its acquisition of adjunct faculty status in 1993 under a partnership arrangement with Monroe Community College, Rochester, with authority to confer associate of science degree majors in selected areas of criminal justice has been a fillip to its academic status. In 1994 it became a registered member of the Association of Tertiary Institutions of Trinidad and Tobago (ATITT). ATITT is the local chapter of the Association Caribbean Tertiary Institutions (ACTI).